Tuesday, April 19, 2016

l33t (leet, 1337) is a simple substitution cipher that started in BBSes in the early 1980s (ah, how I remember my 600 baud modem) that substitutes a few letters for numbers, e.g. '3' for 'E'. My name in l33t (and there were many versions of l33t) might be D4v1d T4yl0r or D4vid T4y10r (depending on whether the 1 substituted for 'i' or 'l').The code and the various simple dialects of l33t I used can be found in this Github gist.I used a rather short crossword puzzle word list, and even so got many words I've never heard of ("genips"?) I actually had one of them ("kirtle") in a spelling bee when I was 10 years old (I got it wrong). Still, most of them are somewhat familiar. And yes, there's a postal code beginning with "V" in British Columbia that refers to lady parts.Edit: a couple of observations from redditors:

It doesn't appear on the list, but the postal code for the small town of Rosslyn Village, Ontario is P0T 2G0.

T4B 0R5 was assigned to Airdrie, Alberta; it would have been better if it had been assigned to Tabor! (Mmm, Tabor corn!)